Optical Art

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Optical Art
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Terms We Need to Know

• Elements
• Space
• There are two types of space positive
  (filled-in) and negative (empty)
• Space deals with how open some areas are and how
  filled-in others are

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Terms We Need to Know

• Principles
• Movement
• Can be real (like in mobiles) or created
• How the piece is arranged to make our eyes move
• Do our eyes move quickly? Slowly?

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Perceived Movement
Actual Movement
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Terms We Need to Know

• Principles
• Contrast
• The difference between different elements in a
  piece of art
• The difference in how light and dark the colors
  or values in a piece are
• Black and white is the greatest contrast you can
  have in terms of value

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The 1960s in Art

• Art during the 1960s was no different
• Artists had started experimenting with abstract
  art - art that does not show objects as they
  appear in real life

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Jackson Pollock was throwing paint around to show
movement
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Andy Warhol was creating multiples of pop culture
images like Marilyn Monroe
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Roy Lichtenstein was painting comic book pages
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And Mark Rothko was trying to capture emotions
with fields of color
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Art Had Gone Mad
Gone were the days of painting a portrait or a
vase of flowers. Art had to be more thoughtful,
more academic. The Optical Artists didnt want
to be any different. They based a whole movement
around how we see.
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Victor Vasarely

• French artist who was concerned with making flat
  canvases appear to have volume and roundness

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Bridget Riley

• British artist concerned with creating movement
  in black and white and disorientation

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